Welding-electrode.



T. E. MURRAY.

WELDING ELECTRODE. APPLICATION HLED 050.4. 1918.

1,295,570. Patented Feb. 1919.

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THOMAS E. MURRAY, 01 NEW YORK, N. Y.

WELDING-ELECTRODE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application filed December 4, 1918. Serial No. 265,203.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. MURRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Welding- Electrodes, of which the following is a specification.

W'here two elongated bodies such as the longitudinal half sections of a tubular object of sheet metal are placed with their edges in contact registry and electrically welded together, imperfect union may occur at the ends of the joints and for some distance inwardly from said ends. My present invention obviates this difliculty, and consists in the construction of the electrodes wherein said half sections are seated.

The accompanyin drawing is a longitudinal section of the we din electrodes and the half sections aforesaid seated therein.

A and B are the electrodes, each having a cavity shaped to receive the half sections C, D which are to be welded at their longitudinal edges. Each electrode is to be constructed with end walls E of a thickness not less than the minimum thickness of any other wall of said electrode. Thus, to illustrate, the thickness of the vertical end walls E, represented by arrows 1, 1, is here shown equal to the minimum thickness of the hori zontal walls F, represented by arrows 2, 2.

' The thickness of said end walls E instead of being equal to that of the horizontal wall 1 as here shown, may be greater, and as represented, for example, by the arrows 3, 3, but

THOMAS E. MURRAY.

lVitnesses I GERTRUDE T. PORTER, MAY T. MoGAnRY. 

